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...Parrot Cay resort in Turks and Caicos, $380-$4,800 a night...
When Four Seasons asked George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg to design a hotel, the Toronto-based architects confessed they had never worked on a luxury hotel. To their surprise, that's what the resort chain--which was reputed for high-class service but not necessarily high-class design--was looking for. "Going to most hotels is like going to Grandma's bedroom. It's fussy and old-fashioned. They wanted a modern approach," says Pushelberg. "It's all in the details and subtlety, so it can resonate with someone 65 years old but also with someone...
...necessity for a feel-good factor for luxury," says Dana Telsey, luxury-goods analyst for Bear Stearns. "With the improvement in the environment, especially after SARS and the war in Iraq, the demand for better products is expanding to all different levels--from the superpremium, like private jets and resort residences, to the accessible Coach...
...contractors, cutting them loose whenever sales look shaky. Rising health insurance premiums make it cheaper to buy better equipment than hire a new employee. "Businesses are more interested in using technology," says Sung Won Sohn, chief economist of Wells Fargo. "They want to hire people only as a last resort...
...called whole-body scans were originally used as a last-resort diagnostic tool to find hidden tumors in patients with cancer. But then the tests caught on among the healthy hypervigilant, who were drawn in growing numbers to walk-in clinics by aggressive TV and radio ads. In 2002, two years after Oprah Winfrey got scanned--and bubbled enthusiastically about the experience--32 million Americans shelled out as much as $1,000 apiece to get their bodies X-rayed in thin slices and reassembled into 3-D images detailed enough to show every blemish, scar and incipient tumor. The numbers...